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RUNNING HEAD: CULTURAL LEXICAL LOSS OF ISAN LANGUAGE IN THAILAND 13th ICLEHI 2019 Osaka 070-065 Chedtharat Kongrat Cultural Lexical Loss of Isan language in Thailand Chedtharat Kongrat,* Rattana Chanthao Department of Thai Language, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Khon Kean University, Mittraparp Road, Khon Kaen, Thailand *Corresponding author: [email protected] Abstract This article aims to analyse the cultural lexical loss of Isan language as a regional language in Thailand. According to an influence of the standard Thai language toward its regional languages lead the loss of regional lexicons especially cultural lexicons. The lexicons loss in terms of linguistic perspective is used to explain the level of loss. The 5 levels of dialect loss developed by Chanthao (2016) is the framework of this research. The 70 Isan lexicons being 3 domains; appliances, instrument objects, and tradition were the data. They were collected by dictionaries and key informants. These lexicons were checked by 50 teenagers being between 20-25 years old living in Khon Kaen province, Thailand as the sampling group. The research finding was found that the 32 Isan lexicons have been used by speakers or they are being not loss or alive but there are 38 lexicons being in 5 levels of loss. Most of lexicons or 16 lexicons is in the highest level. There are 10 lexicons in the lowest level. There are 6 lexicons in high level, 3 lexicons being in medium level and 3 lexicons in low level. The lexical loss key factors of Isan language are an influence of Thai standard as only one language used in school, official as well as mass media. Having no Isan language course in primary school is one factor of lexical loss. The Isan community changed to be modern society lead to way of life change. The teenagers’ attitude toward their mother tongue, moreover, play an in crucial role to less Isan language using in the present. These issues, however, should have been studied in next research. Keywords: Lexical loss, cultural words, Isan language, Thailand, dialect, language death Introduction Lexical Loss is one of language changes which is occurred when the speakers of one language change their attitude; in other words, lexicons are unclear for delivering expressions and thoughts, therefore, borrowed or modern lexicons are used instead. Consequently, traditional lexicons are slowly disappeared from the language. Chanthao (2016) states that lexicon loss might gradually happen, and an obvious level of loss is a lexicon change. Lexical loss, moreover, could be the result of the progress of technology since people use new objects instead of the traditional ones which are rarely used. Hence, old lexicons of those objects are gradually lost and replaced by new lexicons as Panakul (1992) mentions that in many ranges of human life, some lexicons are created and lost according to time changes. However, even though new lexicons match with recent technology and cultural transfer, it must be still determined by social acceptance, which unaccepted lexicons are slowly lost due to rarely use. In the Northeast of Thailand or I-san, Northeastern Thai dialect or Isan dialect has been widely used in every province with approximately 21 million speakers in northeast 13th International Conference on Language, Education, Humanities and Innovation & 84 2nd International Conference on Open Learning and Education Technologies 5th & 6th April, 2019 CULTURAL LEXICAL LOSS OF ISAN LANGUAGE IN THAILAND and all over the country. To date, there is a decreased use of Northeastern Thai dialect that could lead to Northeastern Thai dialect lexical loss which Premsrirat (2006) points out that dialect lexical loss could be interpreted as losing identity and local wisdom with an abundant cultural heritage which will be passed down from generation to generation. In Thai social context, standard Thai language which is used in Bangkok numerously influences people in regions and the existence of Northeastern Thai dialect. It contextualizes Isan people lives at home, school, workplace, as well as public places. As the situation, for instance, of Northern Thai dialect or Kam Mueang, the standard language of eight provinces of upper north is the most spoken dialect, however, Premsrirat (2006) finds that local lexicons are going to disappear soon due to Thai standard lexicons use with local accent or Thai standard lexicons use; in other words, people merely use a local accent but not lexicons. According to documents and studies of variation and lexical changes in Northeastern Thai dialect, elders remain using local lexicons more than teenagers (Suwanmusik, 2 004; Akharawatthanakun, 2 012; Jaimaitee and Sungkaman, 2016) as a result of influences of standard Thai which is an official language, other dialects, as well as creating new lexicons instead of traditional lexicons. Therefore, this research aims to study a lexical loss of Isan culture among teenagers in Khon Kaen province, Northeastern region of Thailand by applying the concept of lexical loss to indicate the identity of Isan culture and urban teenagers. Khon Kaen province, for instance, is the center of Northeastern civilization where urbanization changes a lifestyle of Isan teenagers from a traditional way, thus Isan cultural lexicons might be lost among Isan people especially teenagers in urban economics. Hence, the area of study in Khon Kaen downtown probably is a representative of main downtown area in Isan region, as well as a distinct reflection of Northeastern Thai dialect lexical loss. An important point having to do this research is that it is not only understood the level of Isan lexical loss, but it also is able to use this research finding to plan for teaching Isan cultural lexicons in school specially to maintain mother tongue of Isan people. The figure 1 below will be shown the Northeastern region of Thailand and point out the field work area that is Khon Kaen province by the star symbol as follows. Figure 1 The Northeastern region of Thailand or Isan region 13th International Conference on Language, Education, Humanities and Innovation & 85 2nd International Conference on Open Learning and Education Technologies 5th & 6th April, 2019 CULTURAL LEXICAL LOSS OF ISAN LANGUAGE IN THAILAND Research Methodology This part is divided into 4 sub part that is research framework, scope of study, data collection, and data analysis. Research Framework This study is Thai linguistic research using lexical loss framework of Isan cultural lexicon. 70 vocabularies of appliances and instruments were collected from Isan-Thai standard dictionary of Khon Kaen University (1989). The data were collected from a sampling group which was 50 teenagers or students between 20-25 years old living in Khon Kaen province, Thailand. In this study, questionnaire and case interview were mainly used with the subject of knowledge and using Isan cultural lexicons. In addition, parents of teenagers from 10 families were also interviewed in order to gain more understanding of using Isan dialect in daily life and lifestyle which were related to Isan cultural lexical loss. This research is qualitative and quantitative research presenting descriptive analysis and quantitative data with a percentage. Theory or Concept The concept of lexical loss is a part of language death or endanger language that it has been studied in terms of comparative linguistics. However, the lexical loss is not dominantly such in a few years, it took such a long period to occur. The trace of lexical loss is able to record in mono dictionaries each language when they rewrite the words and word’s meaning the new one. The older lexicons can be changed the meaning in the different periods and completely lost in the end when it was not recorded in the nation's dictionary. In the present time, language loss is the phenomenon appearing widely in various languages, therefore this concept has been applied to study in many languages including dialects and ethnic language in Thailand. Scope of the Study 1) Lexicon lists are 70 cultural lexicons of Isan dialect related to food. Lexicons are collected from Isan-Thai standard dictionary of Khon Kaen University ( Khon Kaen University, 1989). The vocabularies which generally reflect Isan culture are as follows. 2) Sampling group is 50 people consisted of 25 males and 25 females. The researcher also controls other variants by choosing sampling group with a similar background including A researcher selects 20-25 years old as a sampling group since those under 20 years old probably don’t have sufficient lexicons and experiences which might affect the perception of words. The suitable representative of teenagers, therefore, is between 20-25 years old. A researcher intends to gain an overview of both males and females language use, hence, data are collected from males and females with Thai nationality and ethnicity whose homeland and birthplace is Khon Kaen province, who have never migrated to other places, who daily use Khon Kaen Isan dialect, who have Khon Kaen Isan dialect as a mother tongue, and who graduate not exceed high school. Data Collection The researcher, as an Isan dialect speaker, will carefully examine the meanings of vocabularies with parents of 10 families for the relevance of using Isan dialect in daily life. Subsequently, a sampling group will receive a questionnaire of vocabularies which definition and example of sentences are not provided. Sampling group, however, will be 13th International Conference on Language, Education, Humanities and Innovation
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